Biblical Museum Numbers 2:1-2 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,… Many would do well to learn the lesson taught in an old parable. "I don't know," said the turnstile one day, in a reflective mood, "I don't know that I ought to have thought so ill of my lot, and to have fretted over it as I have done. 'Tis true a turnstile has plenty of worry, as I have truly proved; worry and whirl all the day long I Nobody will ever pass without giving a turnstile a swing round; and whoever returns, ten to one but he gives the turnstile a whirling twist the other way! Indeed, I have said that I wouldn't wish to any one, whether friend or foe, the life of a poor turnstile. No. But then, as that old wheel of the waggon said yesterday, mine's a pleasant life and a favoured lot compared with his. If I have to turn round, he has the same; and whilst he has the burden of the cart, there is beside the weight of the load it carries pressing on him, and I have no encumbrances. So, on the whole, perhaps I'd better try and be satisfied; that is, as satisfied as I can afford to be, with so many turns about as must in my situation naturally come to my lot." (Biblical Museum.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, |
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